Frog not eating much

[demeteraurion]

So I've had my albino pac for almost a month now and he's ate maybe 5 crickets. I know they are supposed to eat like 2 or 3 crickets a day but mine just doesn't. He even ate a cricket that was almost dead sitting next to him...

Anyways I'm out of crickets and plan on getting something like roaches or earthworms? Any suggestions?

[John]

It sounds to me like you're not keeping his conditions right. It could be that he hasn't eaten in so long that he is now sick. You need to make sure you can provide a stable environment with a good level of humidity and a reliable temperature. That means somewhere in the mid 70s to mid 80s F (mid to late 20s Celsius) and a humidity level of at least 70%. I'm worried for your frog.

[demeteraurion]

He has a 40w red heating bulb. it is also plenty humid for him. He stays on the cool side of tank usually. I have a small heating mat but i'm not using it because I heard they could burrow down and burn themselves, and putting it on the side really doesn't do anything.

[Deejay Mayweather]

I would remove the heat bulb for a start and stick with the heat mat. Albinos have very sensitive skin. Has john says im also worried for your frog he/she is also not eating enough which automatically means to me somethings wrong. I have 2cm horned frogs that get 6 2nd star crixs and two chopped earthworms a day.

hope he/she improves.

[demeteraurion]

Ok should I put it on the bottom of one side, with the water dish?

[Deejay Mayweather]

I have my heat mat on one side and the water dish on the opposite side.
You may want to try him with different livefoods i would deffinately go with earthworms and roaches has horned frogs and similar species find these hard to resist. I have a horned frog now as we speak that would rather starve than eat crixs. he wont touch them.

hope this helps

[demeteraurion]

Ok I put the heat mat on the side of the tank and piled his substrate a bit more on it. His water dish is on the opposite end. Are bait worms from Walmart ok? I plan on getting some here in a bit.

[DVirginiana]

Like the first person who commented said, it may be that yours has gone so long without eating that it's made itself sick. A friend suggested this to me, and it worked on mine when he wouldn't eat as a baby. For the first few months I had him, I would give him a warm water bath every two days for about ten minutes (he had some pretty severe impaction issues), put him back in his cage, and immediately give him a cricket or two, and he'd eat them right off. I don't have to do that anymore, but if you can establish some sort of routine like that, or even try feeding him in a separate tank like some people do it might get him started eating again.

[demeteraurion]

Thanks for the advice! I know he isn't impacted as he has been going to the bathroom, but I will try some warm water and then feeding him. He seems to be a bit happier now that the light is off.

[Deejay Mayweather]

Like i said earlier it most prob is the light causing a problem, Albinos can not have any direct sources of light whether that being a bulb or the actual sun.

Im glad to ear hes seems happier.

[demeteraurion]

I tried putting him in some warm water, he hated it lol. Then after that I offered him a baby nightcrawler, he didn't show any interest in it. I put him back in the tank on the warm side and later he had moved to the cool side and burrowed, which is good because I haven't seen him burrow in a while.

Feeding worms is going to be annoying since I can't just throw them in the tank or they'll dig underground.

[Eel Noob]

Feeding worms is going to be annoying since I can't just throw them in the tank or they'll dig underground.

Tong feeding will make it easier and safer for you and your frog anyways. I tong feed all my frogs.

[demeteraurion]

Rupert seems to be acting pretty strange, he keeps flipping over and laying there. I think he is stressed out because we have been moving furniture around, and I keep having to change his dirt around. He is still not eating. I put worms around him and try to push it into his mouth and he just turns around away from it. I gave him a warm bath last night and he pooped and I bathed him again today.

im ordering dubias now and hopefully he'll enjoy those more.